How to add post meta data before it has been saved or published? Can’t use transitional hooks. After digging through code, you have to use add_meta_boxes action. Let’s say you have a custom post type book. Each book has several properties (meta data), such as the author, the publisher and the publication date. Now, WordPress …
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Recently, I had to modify the default WordPress admin post editor (TinyMCE) configuration on a specific post type. I wanted to remove a few buttons, Quicktags, limit the number of rows and so on. At first, I was puzzled over which hook I should use. In the end, it turned out to be pretty easy …
During Contribution Day, WordPress enthusiasts get together in a coworking space and work on various WordPress-related tasks such as translations, fixing Core tickets and others. Yesterday, we had a first-ever Contribution Day in Slovakia as the part of WordCamp. It was awesome! Why?
Today, I’ve put my bachelor thesis about WordPress performance optimizations into Git revision control repository. It will help me to track changes and history and enables my supervisor to follow the work. I’ve also put the repo on GitHub. Link: https://github.com/lamosty/wp-perf-optimization-bachelor
Although writing articles on your blog is not directly related to WordPress development, it helps you in many aspects. Similar to having a multitude of tools empowering your programming endeavors, having some of them while writing an article can make your task easier and the result better, especially if English is not your mother tongue. …
Nginx is a modern and fast web server software. If you are not familiar with Nginx, you might be familiar with the Apache HTTP web server software. Both of them can serve your WordPress-powered site, though there are notable differences in performance and the way they work. I won’t be comparing them in this article, …
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Are you working on a new super useful WordPress plugin? Do you want it to be developer-friendly? Define it as a Composer package and submit it to the official Composer package repository: Packagist.org. Other programmers can then require your plugin as a dependency to their projects. You’ll make their lives much better and they’ll give …
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When thinking about your new WordPress web site or application, developers usually look for the best prebuilt WordPress theme. Some reasons for doing so: To save as much time as possible. Learn best practices from fellow skillful web developers. Explore new areas. Sage — a starter theme from the Roots.io guys — belongs to the …
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In the second article of the Ansible and WordPress series, we discussed the basic Ansible project structure and setting up WP-CLI and PHP. Today, I’ll walk you through creating a new database, adding a new user with correct permissions to this database, downloading WordPress with WP-CLI and configuring it properly to use our newly created …
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Since writing the article on why you should use Ansible for managing your WordPress deploys on VPS servers, I’ve added some basic configurations to my GitHub repo about this topic. In this article, we’ll be discussing how the standard Ansible project folder structure looks like and I’ll show you how to set up simple roles …
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